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  2. Ammonia fuming - Wikipedia

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    Fumed oak choir stalls at Clonfert Cathedral, Ireland. Ammonia fuming is a wood finishing process that darkens wood and brings out the grain pattern. It consists of exposing the wood to fumes from a strong aqueous solution of ammonium hydroxide which reacts with the tannins in the wood.

  3. Wood flooring - Wikipedia

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    Oak herringbone parquet floor with two-strip wenge border. This process involves treating the wood by boiling the log in water. After preparation, the wood is peeled by a blade starting from the outside of the log and working toward the center, thus creating a wood veneer. The veneer is then pressed flat with high pressure.

  4. Western use of the swastika in the early 20th century

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    A tile floor at Hereford Cathedral in England is laid out in a swastika like pattern with arms pointed to the right. [196] The floor at Amiens Cathedral in France features a right-facing swastika pattern with shortened arms, similar to the St. Cloud tiles. A popular tourist destination, Amiens is protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

  5. Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Wikipedia

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    The restored "Oak Room" was revealed when V&A Dundee opened to the public on 15 September 2018. In June 2018, a mural depicting Mackintosh and using elements of his distinctive style was created in Glasgow to honour the 150th anniversary of the artist's birth. [43] It is made by Glasgow street artist, Rogue One and commissioned by the Radisson Red.

  6. Islamic geometric patterns - Wikipedia

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    However, in the view of Hamilton Gibb, the emphasis differs: geometric patterns tend to be used for borders, and if they are in the main decorative area they are most often used in combination with other motifs such as floral designs, arabesques, animal motifs, or calligraphic script. Geometric designs in Islamic metalwork can form a grid ...

  7. Quercus ilicifolia - Wikipedia

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    Quercus ilicifolia, commonly known as bear oak or scrub oak, is a small shrubby oak native to the Eastern United States and, less commonly, in southeastern Canada. Its range in the United States extends from Maine to North Carolina , with reports of a few populations north of the international frontier in Ontario . [ 3 ]

  8. Gothic Revival architecture - Wikipedia

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    Sint-Petrus-en-Pauluskerk in Ostend (Belgium), built between 1899 and 1908. Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half of the 19th century, mostly in England.

  9. Nationality Rooms - Wikipedia

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    The Nationality Room Program was founded by Ruth Crawford Mitchell at the request of Pitt Chancellor John Bowman in 1926, in order to involve the community in constructing the Cathedral of Learning and to provide the spiritual and symbolic foundation of the Cathedral that would make the inside of the building as inspiring and impressive as the outside.